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"I've got this beautiful panoramic three-dimensional painting of Mars based on Martian photos. It's 30 feet wide. You can pick out every pebble on the Martian landscape. And who'd have dreamed you could do that?"
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I'm not sure when this was first tried, but here's a brief video showing an eagle-cam in use:
A patent for the basic idea was applied for in 1907; German apothecary Julius Neubronner used pigeons to deliver medications. A homing pigeon was fitted with an aluminium breast harness to which a lightweight time-delayed miniature camera could be attached. Compare to the Raytron Apparatus from Beyond the Stars (1928) by Ray Cummings. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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